Visual discrimination and short-term memory for random patterns in patients with a focal cortical lesion

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-267

  Greenlee, Mark W ^a,c   Koessler, Margit ^a   Cornelissen, Frans W ^b   Mergner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Neurology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030897136     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/7.3.253     Document Type: Article

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